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Peacebuilding
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It's daughters playing soccer with the children of the rival group, sons marrying outsiders, aunts trading with longstanding enemies, and individuals of all backgrounds sharing a market, hospital, school, or art center with the people they've been told to hate. In their day-to-day lives, ordinary people often engage in actions that observers view as banal and unimportant, when in fact these everyday acts help establish relationships that can prevent local outbreaks of violence and, at times, ser
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― The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
― The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
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International peacebuilders have their own world, with its own rituals, its own customs, its own beliefs, its own roles, its own stars, its own villains, its own rules, its own taboos, its own meeting places – in brief, its own culture.
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― The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding
― The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding
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